Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 114

Ah! heavens!" said the parson, "I have a lame foot, and I cannot go out to exorcize him."

Who acts: heavens, I · What happens: say, have, not go out, exorcize · To what, where: parson, lame foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 heavens	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parson	det
8	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 foot	det
14	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 foot	amod
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 exorcize	mark
24	exorcize	exorcize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 exorcize	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	heavens	the parson		tree rules
2	have	present	I	a lame foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	not go out	can	I		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	exorcize	to-infinitive	I not said here	parson		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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